We are going to carry Hilary to victory: Obama to Democrats

TIL Desk World/Philadelphia/ President Barack Obama called on Democrats to carry Hillary Clinton to victory over Donald Trump, saying the 2016 White House race was not just about party politics, but the nature of American democracy.

The two-term president offered potent testimony on the third night of his party’s national convention about how Clinton, his onetime rival, became an ally and trusted advisor. Painting Republican nominee Donald Trump as a know-nothing who cozies up to dictators, Obama said November’s vote was “not just a choice between parties or policies; the usual debates between left and right.”

“This is a more fundamental choice,” he said, telling convention delegates in Philadelphia — the city where America’s constitution was written — that this was a battle for the very “meaning of our democracy.”